what networks it on? you could always use an irc client. I loved the irc client pirch, it was only thing that kept me using windows for a little while til I switched to linux. If I use irc now I use scrollz, its like the old BitchX.

Plenty of random memories are coming back to me now, I can remember waking up one morning to find the aus government dept of foreign affairs and trade had an irc server on efnet, irc.dfat.gov.au